Childhood, in my mind, Yunnan, Xishuangbanna is a style paintings, Bambusa Multiplex set off the Dai bamboo house, bamboo shoots, like the towering golden pagoda, sunset in time for pendulum returned in elegant girl. Pretending to be a donkey, due to the donkeys were right to worry about in Xishuangbanna, the impression has been good went to the Council regrets but always hesitated. Donkey altar popular phrase is "less than Banna really sorry, went to the Banna more regrets." Spring this year, finally decided just to continue a childhood desire strike.
- The Kunming Morning --
First arrived in Kunming have receded a thick Jackets. Kunming, the warm air currents were infected with each of us. Morning at the New Era Hotel 26 floor drinking coffee and lofty windows bright and clean blue sky gradually, lovely friend sent a text message from afar, watching every word she was lovely, and I feel as if the sky like a chipper.
- Jinghong --
The next day went to the afternoon of Jinghong, the aircraft get the weather forecast is 32 degrees, as expected, the air excitedly rushing toward us, boarded the plane in Kunming, Swiss Army knife can not randomly checked, I had to first go to hotels to wait for the airport is responsible for Comrade notice. Outside the airport is a sign bearing a white van in Xishuangbanna airport, I was wondering if you can ride next to another vehicle upon receipt of a telephone line of the master, said: "Miss, I take you into the city for free bar." Master looked quite look familiar, would perhaps a casey on the train. That teacher is over access, and flight delays have to go back to the urban area. To the hotel and casey coincidentally in this city this city of people had a very good impression.
Into Jinghong city, clean streets with all-kinds of coconut trees and palm trees. Prior to imagine that did not come here all the Dai people also must dress, does not. Here I do not see the Dai people dress, there are a lot of people come here to play, but the tourist attractions are still far away from the urban area and did not affect the city quiet. The people here seem very relaxed, it seems that do not have that quick success of the dry movement. Walking in the street, there will be an unprecedented cozy and comfortable.
Yao is a big Man had known the famous barbecue Banna City, to the very busy after 9 pm. Went only to find very poor, lonely lights lit hundreds of people around this town barbecue restaurant, which not many guests, we have chosen a relatively popular to sit down, the weight of each barbecue very full, and tastes good, is said to be a typical Dai flavor. Hot and sour hot and sour, and most to my taste, 15 dollars so that we eat barbecue stays stays, the middle-aged proprietress extra baggage, attitudes, well, people are pretty honest, especially the distribution of cucumber pickles, taste special rod. Up to now remembered still get enough. I do not know whether it also can consume later this delicious barbecue.
Spent a night in Jinghong, the fiscal Xin stay hotels, look very impressive from the outside, which they also clean the facilities in general. The next morning to pack the hotel heard the downstairs is the playground of military training new employees, an officer of the soldiers look like a serious and seriously shouted slogans, and I playfully Pa casey windowsill, laughing hee hee. Officers shouted stand at attention, we are in the above yelled at ease in the afternoon but the officer did not get angry, to continue shouting his slogan.
- Botanical Garden --
From Jinghong pleasant scenery along the way to the botanical garden, the genial sunshine with the breeze in my face before the Buddha, it is a very hearty hearty early summer. All along the dazzling Bambusa Multiplex and coconut trees silhouetted against the sometimes-nothing like a dream Dai village.
Two hours later we went to the botanical gardens, to the botanical gardens is just to keep casey, I have not the slightest interest in cultural landscape. Botanical Garden, and I imagine almost unanimously, nice scenery but human too strong, which they are all the plants transplanted from around the world in the past, at present there is China Institute of tropical plants, there is no imagination in the tropical rainforest feel. However, 5 kilometers to go out, they found a secluded office. The original tropical rainforest, Fan-Sheng primitive functions, it is when you flourish. Here is really natural oxygen bar, breathing the fragrance of natural bush, ears, ever heard a variety of birds magpie's call and also suddenly see the light mood. In the tropical rainforest walk through, we have never come across a pedestrian, bamboo house of the young girl talking, tour guides are not taking tourists to come here will spend too much time, young girl at the same time tell us precisely because they are deceived Kengren person's guide shopping guide, Banna tarnished reputation, we are glad that they are in love with the self-help forms of tourism, but also fortunate to have in botanical gardens and finally found a Pure Land, which has become the only botanical garden memories. Yu-Tang Lin from tropical botanical garden walk back, passing a lush banyan tree, on top of the sun from the thinly inter-penetration of the leaf down, it is mottled. Casey and I spontaneously Wangdishangyi lying, the United States and the United States slept, dreamed of the tortoise and the hare race. The warm wind, the birds twitter cried, as if back to childhood.
- Ganlan Ba --
Out from the Botanical Gardens, we take the bound Menghan the CMB, we are in today's destination was the Dai village. Tricycle pulling us away from the city of Dai Meng Han village, we have chosen a very new loft, Dai people live are two-story house, the upstairs living people, let debris downstairs, upstairs into the living room and bedroom, outsiders can not enter the bedroom. This know, Dai bamboo house have separate homes, and to tidy and beautiful bamboo gate, as was short walls. Within the kinds of garden flowers and fruit, tree-lined, there are banana leaves "Shake Fan", there are bamboo dance sticks, a fruit tree shade, there are flowers and decorations, a bamboo house like a garden. The owner is very warm and also very simple, not much asking price, the room very clean, saying it was bamboo house, in fact, the materials used are mostly wood. Bamboo house furnishings inside is very simple, at the foot of the pillar to here is still upward, has been reach the peak. Several separate from inter-packet also used bamboo strips woven "wall" stopped up, naturally became a symbolic isolated space. Wood floor cover is not like the Han, a root of the wood are covered with a sidelong, no windows, wood and more wood between the revealing light. Because it is just build new houses, so wood is very fragrant. On the grounds of sitting on the floor, then filled with the aroma of wood around you has. Night had been black, black night paste volume for a seat in its blanket of stars, the shining Shuoshuo the stars, palm forest mysteriously did not understand about our fairy tale. When a child is in such a bench in the courtyard listening to Ban Zhao grandmother storytelling. In Bambusa Multiplex, the coconut trees and other plants could not utter the name of the middle, sits one after another, Mu Lou, I saw a dream in the Dai village.
At night, Casey and I walk in the quiet village of Dai, the villagers go in twos and threes to Meet in an open-air movies, where the girls all call "less more than miles," the boys all call "cat more miles," and uncle Aunt necessary to call the "old baa Tao" and "old dial Tao" of. On the way, there are cats many miles non-stop enthusiasm towards our banner greeting, "Welcome, fewer miles," speech in the good faith so that we moved. Dai small village as originally planned, then go to Lijiang Zhu Liangtian Relax, in Dai villages to reach the first night it happened to coincide with the Casey decision to stay here the whole holiday.
- The new home --
The owner told us the next day they will be in accordance with the customs of the Dai people, "on the new house." Dai who has a "build a new house, Quanzhai to help" the good habits. Whose build a new house, as long as the horn sounded No. Quanzhai people will consciously came Xiangbang. After the completion of new houses, but also at the new houses, new house ceremonies He not only reward the folks here to help, but also to evil. HE new house consists of three elements, first, to help villagers master the mattress was covered and so carried to new houses, and in fireplace shelves from a tripod, and burning fire to; second, with everyone singing the song He new home; third, the village folks congratulations to the new home owner, gifts, and some still tied to the money at a ceremony to wish the new home owner good luck, the owner must prepare an adequate drinks and food for all to drink. New home activity to be sustained throughout the last two days and nights in the "on the new house" period, with the villagers would come to congratulate. Master fear to disturb our journey want to give us another link to the other villagers of the bamboo house, but Casey and I thought that such a rare experience which declined Dai style master the best intentions.
The next morning, invited guests arrived one after another. Some of the master Xian chicken is a hen's legs can be the top two columns, pillars, of course the more room the more firmly; some meters to the owner of Xian, because people have rice to eat, can also be healthy and happy ... ... Xian gifts while blessing the people side, and then we helped the owner opened the busy, whatever, no one leisure guests. The courtyard of the trees were hung just kill the Tau, a courtyard paved about 10-meter-long table, more than 10 individuals in wooden butcher slaughtering, bustling. Help of the National People's Congress about twenty or thirty people, everybody talked and laughed, in a friendly manner towards our banner greeting.
Kuaidang sun roof, the owner began preparations for a new house. Artillery guns ready for prime-age adult; young man raised his pig Ngau Tau, cask, box cabinet cabinet; girls tied up climbing mats, blankets, cooking stir-headed women, young and old lined up in ... ... before the stairs, waiting for Supreme Commander ─ ─ the call of the elderly ... ...
When the sun roof, and drive the elderly sitting upstairs to downstairs, the people call: "auspicious auspicious hour arrived, the house a solid color fastness, but also the moment! Husband and wife and good love, but also at this moment! Cattle over downstairs was one of these moment! Poultry full circle, is at this moment! grain warehouse full of money, but also at this moment! out the event of a good man, is at this moment! on Come on, friends and guests. "
Suddenly guns Qiming, declaring the completion of new homes. Ngau Tau young man raised his pig singing and dancing, down the stairs upstairs. Standing on both sides of the little girl splashing water blessing to them heartily. Then, people turn upstairs, the entire new building was full of laughter. People sat around a table filled with food side, toasted, singing ... ...
We have also invited into the sitting, banquet was very rich, the air, Yi Gu rains sour taste, mixed coriander tucked it a special flavor. Cat Multi-Lane told me: This is the Dai people's taste, acid, aromatic and spicy that Sammi is a daily essential. Dai people are very love to eat glutinous rice, washed hands, you use three fingers Nianqi a group, Wo pinch back and forth in his hands has the same shape into it into her mouth like Ciba. It is said to have taste to eat them. I saw a very elegant way to use Casey rice balls in a container of brown sauce tilting the bowl to rub out a small mound and put his mouth to chew with gusto.
- Charming villages --
In the afternoon, me and Casey walking in the village, the green green agave and cactus, tall and straight up, phoenix trees, flowers like a group Panzhihua burning flame, golden yellow clusters of bananas hung in the Trunk, the pink Canna flowers swaying slightly as if to nod and smile to us. Fan Chu pineapple into thin sheets, a green tree, blue river, the river gold, silver and white river water, since the lost forests of smoke to flow out of the depths of winding, tree-shaded by bypassing the village of Dai Wan Yan away.
In the evening, the village where the girls came to the river one after another showers, laundry cedar, because this is a subtropical climate is too hot. Although the shore on the people coming and going, and some eye-catching watch, but the girls still dare to go to bathe Xiahe. They lowered their heads, gently bring the corner of Tongqun walked slowly to the water, every walk two steps, put a slight increase Tongqun 1:00, and always let Tongqun slightly out of the water point, and so went to the river can be flooded to waist local time, suddenly a very quick and neat way to water a squat, smoothly put Tongqun faded from the body down, rolled yelling on the head, and then a very leisurely manner in that clear water to swim to the middle.
Xishuangbanna is a charming evening, the orange-red sunset gradually to the distant mountains to the mountains in the Shen, the multicolored sunset shiny red half of the sky, turn the nearby mountains, woods, Dai villages, rivers dyed a golden黄色. That glittering river, floating a blossoming red, yellow, green, purple flowers, each flower can be heard the following silver bell-like laughter, it was rumored clear, cheerful voice.
When we returned to bamboo house, the owner has been waiting for us with dinner, and warm inside while more than a cat introduced me to the side of the folk customs urge somebody to drink. They themselves round with a one to drink in the past, we drank after they shouted together, "Usher" to indicate a toast. Casey and I at once into an atmosphere of happiness, to be loud, and forward to their Jiuling. Boy drank some wine, they start in the wine on the table and the girl from Dai right songs, the songs to the effect that "We are young, when met, I have been secretly to like you, so many years, do you wishful flies." I asked the cat next to the multi-mile, "the girl do not worry about her husband jealous," many miles the cat replied: "has married, she just think, what relationship?." Older brother sitting next to me pointed to many miles across the cat said, "I used to enjoy her wife does." I can not help for the Dai people's frank and moving.
As night fell, and we drink more than cats taken from home where specially to Hulusi, "Moonlight Bambusa Multiplex" and "beautiful place" over and over and kept trained on the night it mildly deep melodious, as if from the days, the real, "the piece should only be the sky, several times a rare earth smell," ah. After listening to the beautiful Hulusi, they teach us danced the Dai dance, Fortunately, Casey and I are quite dance talent, quickly learned may seem kind of mold, but also attracted a few more years of tut oh praise .
Approaching midnight, small group, and started doing late-night prime-age adult has. Vertical pot pile is the busiest day of the program. They pile down on the fireplace in the pot and pour the wine, that pray, then ignition of the wax pot attached to the three piles, and then began to read the message of pile shaft pot. Each read it three times a pot vertical piles. End pot vertical piles, the owner sent them to Xianzhu eggs, and then to do late-night. This has been two days and nights to downtown. We only Bomb and dispersed.
Banna's leave that morning, I Dai, and Casey along the path Zouliaohenjiu very far if you want to turn this beautiful person is beautiful as King put into the bag to take home, we were with just a few days had already been forged profound friendship less Multi-Mile Multi-mile bid farewell and cats, they are also reluctant to part with tears in our eyes in a long time hold in mouth can not be dispersed. Too many words can not be moved, who said Banna honest is no longer, in my mind, the United States Banna were beautiful, she is a landscape financial situation, family continually song.
By: summer2003
